History YMMV / KingdomHeartsCoded

** The 30 layer labyrinth in Olympus Coliseum has powerful enemies in large numbers on lower layers. The going becomes a lot easier with Tornado Tracer. Stun Impact. It becomes the command Breath of Zeus L2, doing high damage to all enemies for one command. Whatever isn't killed is easy to mop up with normal attacks from Hercules and Cloud. The only catch it that the ingredients to synthesize it are a bit pricy (Aero Edge + Cure, Stop, Slow or Aero to make Aerora, then Aerora + Wind Dash or Wind Tracer).

** The 30 layer labyrinth in Olympus Coliseum has powerful enemies in large numbers on lower layers. The going becomes a lot easier with Stun Impact. It becomes the command Faithblade L3, doing high damage to all enemies for one command. Whatever isn't killed is easy to mop up with normal attacks from Hercules and Cloud. It's synthesized from Heat, Spark or Wind Dive with Land Crash, which are priced at 400 and 1,800 munny, so you can easily get a full deck of Stun Impacts for 2,200 each.

*** More rejoicing for the Final Boss's identity. [[spoiler:It's Roxas.]] Well... [[BaseBreaker fans of his]] rejoiced...

* GrowingTheBeard: The story really starts picking up after the third episode, when [[spoiler:the compiled data of Jiminy's Journal is introduced as its own character in Riku's form. It's weird, but in a good way.]]

* GameBreaker: Judgment Triad in the remake. FULL STOP. It can hit air enemies easily, has homing capabilities, is easy to aim, can hit multiple enemies, and worst of all, does such insanely high damage that almost every enemy, including ''most bosses'', will be [[OneHitKill one-shotted]] by it (and the one that isn't one-shotted will at most take 3 shots to bring down). It makes even the BonusBoss battle just all about dodging with the dodge roll, and aiming Judgment Triad. AND you can have three in your deck.

** NightmareRetardant: Unfortunately, all that happens when you run out of time is... you go back to the beginning of the area. With a full time gauge, [[HaveANiceDeath no horrifying death animation]], or even a gorram Game Over screen. Regardless, it's still one of the most disturbing scenes in the Kingdom Hearts series.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: No [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]]? This troper could've sworn that he once read that it's one of the most popular worlds in the series. It's also one of this troper's personal favorite worlds.

* XenSyndrome: The game essentially ends with you playing an hour of Chain of Memories. Vibrant interesting environments are replaced with pathetically easy single room puzzles, most of which consist of speaking to the right [=NPCs=] in the right order.
** On the other hand, this segment is incredibly psychological, and for some, it's the best part of the game.

* DemonicSpiders: The block spider heartless [[spoiler: that you encounter in data-riku]], see the entry for Kingdom Hearts on this trope's article for more information.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: No [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]]? This troper could've sworn that he once read that it's one of the most popular worlds in the series. It's also one of this troper's personal favorite worlds.

** [[GuideDangIt Some]] [[FakeLongevity would]] [[ViolationOfCommonSense disagree]] (yes, you could change the DS's clock, but still).
*** I simply closed the DS and didn't start the challenge [[spoiler:until nearly 8PM]] on the first time I encountered it (IIRC, you can start [[spoiler:as early as 6 PM]]). As for the CMoF, it simply somehow struck me as the developers themselves [[BreakingTheFourthWall annihilating the fourth wall]] in one of the most interesting ways I've ever seen (it helps that this is KH's first clock-sensitive challenge, AFAIK).

* LoveItOrHateIt: On par with ''358/2 Days'' in the "Is it a worthwhile game or is it pointless?" camp.
** It seems to have even less fans than Days. Heck, many of the people who ''like it'' think the story is the most blatant ExcusePlot they've ever encountered, and the professional critical backlash is even worse than ''Days'' (it's actually the lowest ranked KH game on Gamerankings.com.) At least the [[RuleOfCool gameplay is awesome.]]
** Conversely, you also have people who hate the gameplay with its frequent changes and are happy that the story, ExcusePlot though it may be, starts to explore WhatMeasureIsANonHuman. And [[BrokenBase also conversely]], some hate this theme and find it not appropriate at all for a game like this; that, or it just plain makes no sense and only adds [[KudzuPlot more confusion to the KH cosmology.]]

** Then again, the entire game is basically a mash up consisting of the premise of Chain of Memories, the controls of Days, and the battle system of Birth By Sleep.

*** More rejoicing for the Final Boss' identity. [[spoiler:It's Roxas.]] Well... [[BaseBreaker fans of his]] rejoiced...
* BoringButPractical: Mega Flare doesn't look half as cool as the others Command Finishers, but it does a lot of damage and hit every enemy on screen and you just need to push a button.

*** I simply closed the DS and didn't start the challenge [[spoiler: until nearly 8PM]] on the first time I encountered it (IIRC, you can start [[spoiler: as early as 6 PM]]). As for the CMoF, it simply somehow struck me as the developers themselves [[BreakingTheFourthWall annihilating the fourth wall]] in one of the most interesting ways I've ever seen (it helps that this is KH's first clock-sensitive challenge, AFAIK).

* NightmareFuel: When [[spoiler:Jafar]] takes control over time, everything goes green. [[TimedMission A timer appears.]] And there ''[[NothingIsScarier is no music whatsoever.]]'' You have three minutes to find [[spoiler:Iago]] ''three freaking times'' and stop your inevitable permanent [[AndIMustScream freezing in place for all eternity.]] Break blocks to gain more time. Kill enemies--[[NightmareFuel enemies that will just stand there dully]]--to gain precious seconds. But you're all alone...
** NightmareRetardant: Unfortunately, all that happens when you run out of time is... you go back to the beginning of the area. With a full time gauge, [[HaveANiceDeath no horrifying death animation]] or even a gorram Game Over screen. Regardless, it's still one of the most disturbing scenes in the Kingdom Hearts series.

** [[DudeNotFunny Some]] [[FakeLongevity would]] [[ViolationOfCommonSense disagree]] (yes, you could change the DS's clock, but still).

* HilariousInHindsight: those avatars... who would ever suspect of them getting ADayInTheLimelight?... ''oh,'' right. ''TheatrythmFinalFantasy.''

*** I simply closed the DS and didn't start the challenge until nearly 8PM on the first time I encountered it (IIRC, you can start as early as 6 PM). As for the CMoF, it simply somehow struck me as the developers themselves [[BreakingTheFourthWall annihilating the fourth wall]] in one of the most interesting ways I've ever seen (yes, several DS games have clock-sensitive elements, but until this challenge, KH did not).

**** But if he's a boss fight, you'd have to take him down. Wouldn't that mean Roxas's HATERS should've rejoiced instead of his fans?

*** More rejoicing for the Final Boss' identity. [[spoiler: It's Roxas.]] Well...[[BaseBreaker fans of his]] rejoiced...

* GameBreaker: Judgment Triad in the remake. FULL STOP. It can hit air enemy easily, has homing capability, easy to aim, can hit multiple enemy, and worst of all, does insanely high damage that almost every enemy, including boss is one shotted by it(the one that isnt one shotted is at most take 3 shot). It make even the BonusBoss battle just all about dodging with dodge roll, and aim Judgment Triad. AND you can have three in your deck.
** Below the broken Judgment Triad is Triple Pursuit which while not as ridiculous is quite insane. It is a tracking Ice elemental attack that does good damage and last extremely long to deal multiple hit and freeze enemy that doesn't immune to it almost every time. Its ingredients ? Two command that you can buy(or get) relatively easy because its a Basic Magic command and a command you can buy right after you complete the fourth world that cost 12.000 munny. Easily a DiscOneNuke

** It seems to have even less fans than Days. Heck, many of the people who ''like it'' think the story is the most blatant ExcusePlot they've ever encountered, and the professional critical backlash is even worse than ''Days'' (it's actually the lowest ranked KH game on Gamerankings.com) At least the [[RuleOfCool gameplay is awesome.]]
** Conversely, you also have people who hate the gameplay with its frequent changes and are happy that the story, ExcusePlot thought it may be, starts to explore WhatMeasureIsANonHuman. And [[BrokenBase also conversely]], some hate this theme and find it not appropriate at all for a game like this; that or it just plain makes no sense and only adds [[KudzuPlot more confusion to the KH cosmology.]]

** NightmareRetardant: Unfortunately, all that happens when you run out of time is...you go back to the beginning of the area. With a full time gauge, [[HaveANiceDeath no horrifying death animation]] or even a gorram Game Over screen. Regardless, it's still one of the most disturbing scenes in the Kingdom Hearts series.

* XenSyndrome: The game essentially ends with you playing an hour of Chain of Memories. Vibrant interesting environments are replaced with pathetically easy single room puzzles most of which consist of speaking to the right [=NPCs=] in the right order.
** On the other hand, this segment is incredibly psychological and for some is the best part of the game.

** [[DudeNotFunny Some]] [[FakeLongevity would]] [[ViolationOfCommonSense disagree]] (yes, you could change the DS's clock, but still]].